Top 100 Makes All The Difference Quotes
#1. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#2. Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.
Joe Biden
#3. So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.
Thomas S. Monson
#4. I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.
Mamie Gummer
#5. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift
Andy Andrews
#6. When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
Greg Lake
#7. Beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference. It was one of those happy mornings.
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
Nancy Johnson
#9. The more I read, the more I see. Connections get made. Lights go on. God speaks. Often, when I am facing some difficult or puzzling situation, God reminds me of a Scripture passage I have read. And it makes all the difference.
Ann Spangler
#10. Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.
Robert Stawell Ball
#11. It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#12. Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
Robert Griffin III
#13. We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#14. I'm no longer on the outside looking in, but on the inside looking around. This new vantage point makes all the difference. It's amazing how a change of perspective can change a life.
A.J. Compton
#15. When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.
E.B. White
#16. She got very tired, so tired that even her toys could no longer amuse her. You would wonder at that if I had time to describe to you one half of the toys she had. But then, you wouldn't have the toys themselves, and that makes all the difference: you can't get tired of a thing before you have it.
George MacDonald
#19. I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.
Chuck Hogan
#20. Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#21. If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.
David Landes
#22. Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#23. Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
Rob Thomas
#24. What if this present were the world's last night' she said. 'The word present makes all the difference, don't you think? It makes it seem as if one's somehow in the thick of it, which we are, rather than simply contemplating a theoretical concept.
Kate Atkinson
#26. I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference
Joan D. Chittister
#27. As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Richard Whately
#28. All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*
Stella Gibbons
#29. God wants us to pursue certain actions, but as we put God's commands into action, our motivation makes all the difference.
Francis Chan
#31. There is good all around us, but we get so used to it that we forget to celebrate it. The bad and unfortunate circumstances in our lives do not deserve all of our attention and energy. Remember to look for the good and to give that your full time and attention. It makes all the difference.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#32. I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.
Crystal Chappell
#33. Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!
C. JoyBell C.
#34. You expecting a collapse, Gunny?" "The technical sergeant is repairing alien technology with a piece of torn uniform - I'm expected the Goddamned tunnel to blow up." "Ressk's helping." Mike's voice sounded muffled. "And that makes all the difference," Torin snorted.
Tanya Huff
#35. All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.
Aline Ohanesian
#36. When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference
Tony Dungy
#38. Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
Paulo Coelho
#39. Asking the right question makes all the difference to your outcome.
Liz Hester
#40. It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow
to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
Agatha Christie
#42. In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
Mark Zandi
#43. Going in one more round when you don't think you can that's what makes all the difference in your life.
Sylvester Stallone
#44. When pressed to tell people how I got myself into my current nepotism-gone-bad situation, I like to describe it as a mini-breakdown. The prefix makes all the difference. It makes it sound more like a vacation than a condition best treated with medication and art therapy.
Jill A. Davis
#45. I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.
JoBeth Williams
#46. Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Marvin Minsky
#47. Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.
Ezra Taft Benson
#48. Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.
Julia Child
#49. Faith is about trust in something deeper. Maybe I have given you the wrong impression when I pray to the Saints, but it always allows peace of mind for me. I know they intercede before God, but I also know that God is listening, and just knowing this makes all the difference.
Olga Soaje
#50. Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.
Emily VanCamp
#51. Sweetie, they're your feelings, so they can't be wrong. It's what you do with them that makes all the difference, but you have the right to feel what you feel.
Michele G. Miller
#52. Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving ... and that makes all the difference.
Joan D. Vinge
#53. A book
the book that was, for some reason, THE book
can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.
Anna Quindlen
#54. You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
Ruth Rendell
#55. There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.
Christian Bale
#56. What matters is that you develop the mindset that people want what you have to offer. Your belief that you truly can make a difference makes all the difference! It's called congruent communication.
Matt Anderson
#57. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
A.A. Milne
#58. When you look at pain as material it makes all the difference in the world. I thought, the pain that is too big to be eased by its use as material would be a pain I couldn't (and wouldn't want to) even imagine.
Francesca Lia Block
#59. You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!
David Giuntoli
#60. Jesus doesn't make up the difference. Jesus makes all the difference. Grace is not about filling gaps. It is about filling us.
Brad Wilcox
#61. Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.
Mohnish Pabrai
#62. Almost is such a wonderful word don't you think?" the shopkeeper said with a wink. "So full of wiggle-room and loopholes, so not-absolutely-anything. Almost killed means still very much alive, which I am sure you will agree makes all the difference.
A.J. Hartley
#63. We all get our share of tragedy or insanity or drama, but what we do with that horror is what makes all the difference. I
Jenny Lawson
#64. Life never ceases to throw us googlies. It is how we handle them that makes all the difference. Sometimes you have to take control of it and, at other times, it is best to let go. And the wisest of persons is the one who knows which option to choose.
Preeti Shenoy
#65. We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
#66. People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.
Jim Harbaugh
#67. Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
John Wyndham
#68. Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David Deida
#69. It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.
Jonathan Martin
#70. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen Duncan
#71. All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.
John Ashcroft
#72. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
#73. First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
Angela Thirkell
#74. Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
#75. If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.
Gary Allen
#76. It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
Henry Reed
#77. You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.
Luis Suarez
#78. All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
Glenn Beck
#79. Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers
Stieg Larsson
#80. The question, then, is whether being an "individual" makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.
Chang-rae Lee
#81. Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?
Kate DiCamillo
#82. What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
Willie Mays
#83. One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!
Jane Goodall
#84. Our health and well-being is something that we can almost control, to a certain extent. We can choose to eat healthy, we can choose to think positively, and we can choose to have good posture. All this stuff makes a difference, and the way that you look and feel, and your confidence.
Bethany Hamilton
#85. When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.
Tiger Woods
#86. I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.
Neil Young
#87. I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller
#88. Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#89. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all.
Leigh Bardugo
#90. People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
Ian K. Smith
#91. True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
William James
#92. Practice builds habits. Our habits are our character. When it comes to virtue, practice makes a very great difference - or rather, all the difference.
Eric Greitens
#93. The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
C.S. Lewis
#94. I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#95. Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world.
Laurie Viera Rigler
#96. When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy.
Henry Townley Heald
#97. The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.
P. W. Botha
#98. I don't think it makes much difference what we're recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.
Marta Mrotek
#99. I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.
Chris Van Hollen
#100. Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
Jean Houston
